Do you know Soak? If not you totally should! Soak is the fine washing product that makes life a little more happy, keeps fabric (from knit goods to quilts to baby things) as lovely as the day you bought them and it smells divine. Happy smells = Happy Maddie
For those with sensitivities the fine Soak-folk have unscented products as well….but heaven help me I am hooked on the happy aromatherapy scents that make up the soak line.
I am currently crushing on Pineapple Grove, but the Fig has a place in my heart and Celebration lifts my spirits every time I use it. And use it I do!… you can find all three parts of the Soak family line of products in my house.
You can find a bottle of Soak up in my bathroom for washing out delicates and knits as well as one in the laundry room for when I wash quilts. This is really a wonderful mild wash that works for so many things and I learn a bit more about it each time I visit their Soak School page . I am going to try it next on my beauty tools!
You can find Flatter in my sewing studio as well as in my closet! Flatter not only makes ironing smoother and faster it smells amazing, but since it is also a static eliminator and relaxes wrinkles I keep a bottle in my closet to spritz clothes that ~might~ have been left to sit in the dryer a bit too long and therefore have a few wrinkles (ahem).
Check in my purse and you will a find a bottle of their Handmaid lotion in my scent-dejour helping keep my hands soft (handling fabric all the time really dries out the skin!)
This company rocks! and we are so very excited to have them as one of our new BadAss sponsors for 2017…. so you can look forward to a lot more Soak education as well as giveaways… hint hint.. keep reading!
But possibly the best thing is that I know the owner and think of her as a friend. Jacqueline Sava is one rockin’ woman.
Canadian business woman, new mother of twins and a rather stunning human all while being wickedly funny. I have a serious heart for woman-owned businesses and part of the mission of BAQS is to highlight the good… and Soak is good stuff for sure! I encourage you to support them when you see their products at your local quilt and knit shops or online at www.soak.com Free shipping on order over $25!
You know how this works…. we love a good party here at BAQS and what is a party without favors!!! This time we are going to be giving away THREE of the Travel size Soak Holiday sets! Perfect for traveling in the new year! You really are going to adore Soak…. so come to the party! We will have THREE happy winners this time!
Leave a comment here telling us about your best scent related memory and you will be entered for one of the THREE sets we will be giving away. We will pick our winner on the 30th of December and announce your name by live stream! So make sure to check back in!
I can always remember the smell of clean sheets put on the bed after hanging on the outdoor clothes line all day. Thanks for the giveaway.
I think my favorite scent memory is sitting on the side hill at my Grandma’s house in the spring. She had lilacs on the corners of her house and across the driveway was a full line of them between her house and the neighbors. It was heavenly!
My Nana always wore Chantilly perfume. I still have a small bottle and open it often just for a whiff. Thanks grinnie1961 at gmail dot com
I learned something new — didn’t realize Soak was a Canadian company. Yeah to us Canadians!! I love the smell of apple pie or apple crisp in the oven.
My favorite scent related memory involves the pomander balls my mom used to make at Christmas time. The smell of oranges, cloves, and ??? I just can’t recall the other ingredients…
Grape picking and then making grape jelly at grandma’s on hot afternoons. Every time I make jelly it puts me right in her yard 45 years ago.
When my sons were small, my parents were around them a lot. My Dad is a big cuddler, so inevitably his after shave would linger on them. We would say they had “Poppa head.” So sweet.
I love lavender, for my bath, candles and incense, anything I find lavender is fair game. I also like like fresh scents like lemon, lime and orange.
We have gardenias on the walk as you come up to the front door and it is the most awesome smell on a warm summer evening.
Most favorite scent is that of the ocean. Reminds me of growing up in a beach town in southern California so many years ago. How I miss those days walking to the beach on school field trips. Playing in the sand, running in the ocean. Roasting marshmallows at the bonfires. Seagulls dive-bombing my peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Crashing of the waves lulling me to sleep…
My mother always had a lilac bush and the smell of that brings back fond memories! Can’t wait to smell the soak pineapple items!
One of the things that provokes a child hood memory for me is my Grandmother’s smell. I don’t know what she used, but it was the old time rouge smell. My Grandmother past away when I was 7, and I found her old lipstick…. when I needed to be close to her, I would smell it! The other day I was in Birmingham and ran into that smell again, and the memories just came flooding back….
My dear daughter played volleyball through college. She wanted me at every tryout, practice & game. I had a serious case of bleacher butt by the time she finished. Her first school holiday after her volleyball career ended, we went to Maui. Last minute trip, impulsive. We were driving to the lavender farm & drove through a eculyptus forest!! MAGIC
My Mom’s refrigerated rolls.
My grandmother was a farm wife … complete with milking cows, feeding chickens, planting a garden. But her dresser drawers always had a lilac sachet tucked inside and to me, as a small child, that indicated that she was a fine lady. And so she was.
My favorite scent story is my daughter’s comment every time she came home from college in a big city four hours from home. She said each trip when she exited the interstate and turned off a state highway onto our gravel road she rolled down the windows to smell HOME. Cows, dirt, and fresh air. She said there was nothing like it. This story makes my heart happy.
Mom’s cinnamon rolls baking were the best smell ever!
Lavender is still my favorite scent as my mom had little sachets in her lingerie drawer. When she gave you a hug you got a wiff of it- aah wonderful memory
When I was a teenager, our male figure skating teacher had the most incredible smelling cologne… all the girls wanted to get dance lessons with him!! We never found out what it was called because we were all too shy to ask!! Lol
Mmmmm. Scents on the sewing room. And laundry. How lovely that would be!
Cinnamon and also lavender vanilla are my favorites
My mom always used to wear Chantilly. So I grew up loving that smell. Don’t even know if it’s still available.
Lavender has always been the scent I seek out. As a young adult when I started my own garden I made sure was planted. Where ever I see it I will go out of my way to rub made hands against it and take a deep breath. It often gets odd looks esp, when I do it at a business or outdoor cafe.
My best scent memory is rhubarb pie, every time I bake one the smell reminds me of summers at my grandma’s and her awesome pie!
Would love to try these products. Thanks for the chance to win
My first real scent memory is of my grandmother’s cupboards. She sent me to get a towel for the beach (she lived in a little house on a harbor and we would go hunting sand dollars, but we never talked about the starfish I left for her in her garage sink ???. Talk about a smell!). Her cupboard smelled like lavender. She kept bars of Yardleys English lavender soap in all her linen and clothes cupboards. Even 26 years after she passed, I can still smell it, and keep bars in my cupboards. if I could get a bar made of Soak fig, it might replace those though ?
How do you pick a scent….linen makes me think of old memories of snuggling under Grandma’s quilts and feather ticks
Love the smell of flowers lovely warm weather and lazy days
Fruit scents think of baking or holidays
Cinnamon and spices warm weather baking and family
The best scent memory I have is bringing in the laundry from the clothesline when I was just tall enough to reach.
Fresh air dried, sun warmed sheets smelled wonderful as I ironed them! (Yes, there was a time before permanent press!!)
Sounds like something I would like to try…
Good luck to all who enters..
Been loving the pineapple scented products. Make ironing more enjoyable and my quilts come out of the washing smelling fantastic and looking bright and clean. Love! The products.
I have a funny unpleasant scent memory – since I was pregnant I have developed the super power of a nose that can smell anything. When one of our kids was little and in diapers, he was standing next to my husband but all the way across the room from me. I called him out for having a dirty diaper. Hubby couldn’t tell – but it was totally obvious to me! We cracked up that he could have missed that scent right under his nose!
My grandmother was born and raised in central Florida, so we spent many Christmases with her and my grandfather. They lived on many acres so we always went out and cut a scrubby cedar tree for our Christmas tree. Decorated, it was beautiful if a little skinny! There were also still some orange trees left on the property from a time when citrus was big in Ocala, and they had some great oranges on them. The smell of oranges at Christmas brings back all the wonderful memories of those Florida Christmases.
my favorite scent is dowdy line dried sheets, not really sure what that smell would be, but it has been my favorite. Other wise, I love the scent of vanilla
Snickerdoodles in the oven is a favorite memory!
The strongest scent memory I have is of entering my grandmother’s house on any holiday and smelling the stuffed grape leaves, aka dolmas. I make them myself now and there is no written recipe from my grandmother. I just know that the mix is right by the smell. I miss my grandmother but everytime I make these it feels like she is still here with us all.
I am a retired preschool teacher. I was very selective about wearing perfume, on my classroom, as many children have allergies. The perfume I did use was sweet and light. A patent shared with me that her daughter thought I smelled like cotton candy. To this day, o love the smell of cotton candy!
I love the scent of fresh baking, like gooey warm cinnamon rolls. Reminds me of cold mornungs and warm goodies. I have used a lingerie soap before but the scented Wash sounds heavenly.
My favorite memory of a scent is my candle that smells like Cinnamon Toast. Smells so good and makes my whole house smell like goodies baking.
My favorite scent memory is my grandmother baking Moravin cookies. They are a molasses cookie rolled very thin so the just crunch in your mouth. It brings back so many wonderful memories.
It’s not fabric related but every time I smell a spring onion I have a major flashback to my childhood and my father going to the growers market and coming home with boxes full of fresh goodies. To me this is such a happy smell and always leaves me so happy
When I lived in Dallas, we used to eat at this fabulous restaurant, Campisi’s, and you’d walk in the door and the overwhelming smell of garlic and Italian sauce would just roll over you. Every time I smell garlic and Italian sauce it takes me back and I can almost taste their fabulous pizza and taste the cold Chianti (yes, they serve it cold there). Yum yum yum.
Hope I win 🙂
I love many natural scents. My “best” scent memory is Christmas related -and somewhat gives my age category. As a child oranges were a real treat. The smell of orange oil as one is peeled takes me back. We always got an orange or two, an apple, a peppermint stick and a variety of nuts in our stockings on Christmas morning. While I really loved the nuts (and still do) the orange was the breakout scent. Of course that peppermint stick is a close second.
I do wonder if you had asked this in July if I would have answered the same.
My grandma had hundreds of flowers and every time I smell any kind of flower it reminds me of her. She just passed away 2 years ago at 98 and still had hundreds of flowers she would take care of as long as she could get her wheelchair out there 🙂
Love the fact that it comes unscented also
When I go to Sedona the B and B that I stay in has Euchalytus scented products. I bought a bottle of the lotion to use at home and it brings back the warm sun, red rocks and the beauty of Arizona every time I wear it.
I cannot get enough lavender! I also love the citrus scents.
Growing up as a child, I used to crawl around in the spring to smell the hyacinths in bloom. To this day, if I walk through herb gardens, I have to bend over and sniff everything, and I always rub my hands across lavender and rosemary plants.
A scent related memory is the perfume Charlie – I smell it and it seems as if my deceased MIL is standing right beside me! ❤
I love herb gardening as well as quilting. I call going through the herb garden and caressing the leaves of the herbs, especially Rosemary, my aromatherapy.
Since I will need the “unscented” variety, I don’t have a “best scent related story.” However, I am happy to enter this contest and hope to win the “no flavor” option. Thanks so much for the opportunity.
I’m a Woolite kind-a gal but that Soak line looks wonderful. Am wondering what that Celebration scent smells like …
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Ooo, forgot my scent-related memory – that would have to be when my mom was an AVON lady and sold Skin So Soft.
My favorite sent would be wood smoke every time I smell a fire I’m back at my grandparents where they heated with a wood burning stove . They’ve been gone 30 years now but I still love that smell.